So yesterday was another polling day. I thought I’d done my voting last May. I’ve since seriously regretted my decision, although I’m painfully aware that the possible alternatives were equally unacceptable. It was a case of “the best of a bad job” at the time; it still is. And I’m all geared up to make my mark in the appropriate box in June for the upcoming European Referendum. That’s a VIP “X” marks the spot for me. Somehow though yesterday’s mini poll did not flag up on my political radar.
On our way to a Thursday curry night, we saw “Polling Station” signs in most of the villages we travelled through. “How come we’ve not had voting cards?” asks Mr B. “Is our area not voting this time?”
“Obviously not,” says I, in charge of the wheel.
And then I cast my mind back, whilst nonchalantly cruising up hill and down dale with the warm spring breeze wafting in through the half open window, and Mr B whistling along to the radio. I have a vague recollection of two cards appearing in our post box several weeks ago that may have been to do with voting. I make a mental note to check when we get home, knowing full well that polling stations stay open till 10 pm and we can still put our vote in if need be.
Later, I take Mr B a coffee out to the workshop, where he’s twiddling with a machine.
“We do have voting slips for today,” I say, holding out the cards. “It’s to vote for the local Police Commissioner.”
“Do we know who the candidates are?” he asks.
“No idea!” I reply. And I realise right then that we’re not going to vote today.
“Where were the cards?”
“In the bread bin.”
The bread bin houses all domestic paperwork to be dealt with; it has never held bread.
Does anyone else have a bread bin for a filing system I wonder?
Suzy Barker 
I don’t use mine for paperwork. But it’s not for bread either. It was just one of those impulse buys that I should have resisted and it clutters up the surface. Mind you, it’s very attractive. Thanks for the excellent re-purposing idea!
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Your post made me laugh! I can totally relate to your method of filing. My important papers live in a biscuit box!!
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Oh gosh Suzy, I can relate. Not so much a bread bin but a make shift wooden thing that sits on our kitchen bench. Lots of stuff gets shoved in there. 🙂
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So, I suppose the bread goes in the filing cabinet, does it? 😉
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I had a week where I kept putting the scissors away in the fridge…..my son won’t let me live that down.
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I like the ending question!
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An appropriate place for politics, especially when closed.
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Too funny! Growing up we had a built-in microwave that didn’t work that became our bread bin – does that count? We didn’t have a bread bin to store our mail – we used a junk drawer! 🙂
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That really does count. I never before heard of a microwave bread bin.
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I know? Right? We had the most expensive bread box on the block! Lol 😀😀
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Oh God–growing up, my mother had a red and white enameled tin bread box. And it was used for………bread! But I’d was the spongy Wonder bread she kept in there. My ex-husband kept important unpaid bills in a white planter that I now throw spare change into!
But here’s the thing–in one corner of our kitchen counter, is a free-standing pile of wrapped bread and rolls. I need a bread box but I haven’t seen one in a store here in the States in decades! Google time!
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No, we do not have a bread bin for a filing system. We just use the trash bin! 🙂
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Nice bread bin!
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